Pig Pig Pig

Look what we got............



10 little piggies! One for the freezer, one for the neighbours freezer and 8 little piggies for the market. Not sure what breed they are - but they look like they might have some Duroc in them. The neighbours got some mastitis milk given but had no where to keep the pigs, so we are going halvers in them. The kids were so excited when we got back from school and they were there. So we dug out some fruit scraps to go feed them.
Sam said "pig pig, ugh, ugh" which his his oink sound!

After pig feeding (there is now a Spotty, a Babe and a Jessa!) We went out into the paddock toget some carrots. There was a few parsnips and we even got some new potatoes!!! YUMMY.
The kids love picking stuff we have grown and they helped to plant.

Check out Jessas huge carrot - she was very excited about this one, even if she did get a little muddy pulling it out! (check out the knee) Daniel found a huge one too - they are really sweet to the taste too. We had homegrown carrots, swede and potatoes with homegrown beef topside stew and peas (they were from the vege stall) very satisfying.
In other news - the kids stall is now up and running and the other day they sold two swedes ( We think it might have been the neighbour) And today there were several bags of kindling gone and some horse poo. So in one week they now have the total of $24. They were so excited, there were lots of coins so they thought there was heaps of money there. It is really cool to see them reap the rewards to their efforts of collecting all the horse poo. (Dad helped with making the stall, chopping swedes and bagging the kindling) They are all set to collect more horse poo and kindling this weekend.

Which brings me onto the other exciting news - I am going away for the weekend and leaving the kids with Jase, I am so excited and looking forward to it. I am taking Charlie of course, he sort of needs me right now (although we did have to have a talk about biting the boob that feeds you the other day!) I have sorted all my scrapbooking stuff to take, my knitting is at the ready and I think I may even be able to sneak in a little bottle of wine! My sister in law and mother in law are coming too and we are going to Queenstown to stay in a friends house (thanks so much if you are reading this - it is awesome and just what we needed) Cant wait to update on what a great weekend we had!